Gran Turismo 5’s gamescom Announcements

Guten Tag Gran Turismo fans! We’re coming to you semi-live and sort-of on-location from ze lovely German city of Cologne, site of this year’s gamescom, with a quick update on the latest news on Gran Turismo 5 and some of the features we’ll have ready for you come November 2nd. Below are some brief notes on these features, but for a more detailed break down, brand new screenshots and some cool historical bits, visit the official Gran Turismo website.

Single Player Career Modes: A-Spec and B-Spec
In A-Spec, you are the driver and it will be your driving skills that decide where you stand on the grid.

B-Spec, you are the Team Director, and your job is to study the competition and properly play to your driver’s strengths to come out on top. Winning will be a team effort, with every race a chance to improve your driver’s technique and help him develop into a top-tier driver. This is a brand new style of racing.

Garage: A Virtual Rolodex for Your RidesGran Turismo 5 gives you the chance to own over 1000 hyper-detailed cars, and the Garage section will be their home, complete with numerous easy-to-use categorizing tools that would make Melvil Dewey rethink his system.

Your personal collection will come from a couple of different areas, two of the main ones being Dealers (for new cars) or Used Car Dealers. But regardless of where you purchased, every car will be more than welcome to enter the Tuning Shop for body and suspension kits, exhaust systems and more performance parts than you can shake a stick at.

My Lounge: Virtual Track Days, Anytime, Anywhere.
Gran Turismo 5’s new revamped online system takes the essence of spending a day at the track and recreates the same level of excitement and competition in your game room (minus the smell of burnt rubber and bald tires).

Course Maker: Unleash your Inner-Architect
Be inspired by Gran Turismo’s 70 track variations to generate a super-hybrid course or come up with a dream course the likes that no one has ever seen before …

Kart Racing: A Pro-Driver’s Training Wheels
A large majority of real-life professional drivers had their start on karts, as they are a perfect way for first time drivers to learn racing theory and seasoned pros to hone their skills … and the same goes for Gran Turismo drivers. Gran Turismo’s Kart racing mode gives you a chance to experience this kind of training (virtually of course ) … click here for a preview of what is in store for you.

I have to agree with DZORMAGEN – there are at least 12 games due out between now and next March that I want. Very expensive time ahead!

I wish devs would shake off this idea that ‘no-one buys games in the summer’ and release top games all year round. Having them all hit from October to March inevitably means that some will not do as well as they should.

Not that that will affect GT5… I’ll be gobsmacked if this doesn’t shift a gajillion units on day one.

This game looks amazing but I’m still incredibly disappointed in its third-person chase camera. Polyphony nailed it in GT1-GT3. The cars were free to pivot without the camera jerking side to side with every little yaw movement, but from GT4 onwards they used a new system that’s almost unplayable.

I understand that people in Japan have different preferences in this regard, but PLEASE give everyone the option to choose for themselves–just put a toggle button in the settings menu for ‘Rigid’ or ‘Loose’.

This is actually a real game? Wow! I thought it was just something to spam up the gaming world. Maybe you guys should delay it a few more years. Or better yet, make the damage more realistic. If this is a supposed “real driving simulator”.

Honestly, your post makes you look just as foolish as the xbot troll. Of course Forza 3 will not be as good as GT5….the latter has been in development for FIVE YEARS! lol Both are great games in their own right. GT5 should be better and I’m sure it will be but there is no need to bash FM3 just because you are a PS fanboy.

Oh and FM3 versus GT4?? Gimme a break. I like the GT series too but that is ludicrous. FM3 beats the pants off it in nearly every area (as it should being a much newer game).